The Mormon Battalion: Its History and AchievementsDeseret News, 1919 - 96 pàgines |
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The Mormon Battalion: Its History and Achievements Brigham Henry Roberts Visualització completa - 1919 |
The Mormon Battalion: Its History and Achievements Brigham Henry Roberts Visualització completa - 1919 |
The Mormon Battalion: Its History and Achievements Brigham Henry Roberts Visualització completa - 1919 |
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A. J. Smith Angeles army arrived B. H. ROBERTS Battalion members Battalion's march Bigler Brigham Young Cali camps Captain Allen Captain Hunt Colonel Cooke command Conquest Cooke's Council Bluffs desert Discovery of Gold Doniphan's Expedition duty enlistment five hundred followed fornia Fort Leavenworth Fremont garrison George Cooke Gila Governor Mason HISTORICAL MARCHES History of Brigham Indian irrigation January Kane Kearny land Leavenworth letter Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Little Lot Smith march of infantry Mexican Mexico military Missouri Mormon Bat Mormon Battalion Mormon Battalion Monument Mormon leaders Mormon Volunteers Mount Pisgah mountains mules mustered Nauvoo officers Pacific pioneer company President Polk Pueblo detachment re-enlisted Retreat route Salt Lake Valley San Diego San Luis Rey sand Santa Fe says soldiers Sonora southern Sutter's Sutter's Fort talion thousand tion Tucson Tyler Tyler's Battalion United Utah wagon road wire
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Pàgina 24 - our mules by herding them over large tracts, which you have laboriously guarded without loss. The garrison of four presidios of Sonora concentrated within the walls of Tucson, gave us no pause. We drove them out, with their artillery, but our intercourse with the citizens was
Pàgina 2 - people to stand ready at your call, and that the whole body of the people will act as one man in the land to which we are going, and should our territory be invaded we hold ourselves ready to enter the field of battle, and then like our patriot fathers * * * make the battlefield our grave or gain
Pàgina 25 - Smith and George Stoneman, of the First Dragoons, have shared and given invaluable aid in all these labors. "Thus volunteers, you have exhibited some high and essential qualities of veterans. But much remains undone. Soon, you will turn your attention to the drill, to system and order, to forms also, which are all necessary to the soldier. "By order
Pàgina 37 - Monday 24 (January) : This day some kind of metal was found in the tail race that looks like gold." "Jan 30th: Clear, and has been all the last week. Our metal has been tried and proves to be gold. It is thought to be rich. We have picked up more than a hundred dollars' worth this week.
Pàgina 4 - not, however, to a number exceeding one-third of your entire force. Should they enter the service they will be paid as other volunteers, and you can allow them to designate, so far as it can be properly done, the persons to act as officers."*
Pàgina 25 - of California, after a single day's rest, you cheerfully turned off from the route to this point of promised repose, to enter upon a campaign, and meet, as we supposed, the approach of an enemy; and this, too, without even salt to season your sole subsistence of fresh meat. "Lieutenants A J. Smith and George Stoneman, of the First Dragoons, have shared and given
Pàgina 22 - The road wound through smooth green valleys, and over very lofty hills, equally smooth and green. From the top of one of these hills, was caught the first and a magnificent view of the great ocean; and by rare chance, perhaps, it was so calm that it shone as a mirror.